Dumping-wagon.



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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

EARL P. LE GORE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DUMPING-WAGON.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 711,665, dated October 21, 1902- Application iled J'uly 1l, 1902.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EARL P. LE GORE, a citizen of the United States, residing at 1825 North Twelfth street, Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Dumping-Wagon, of which the following is a speciiication.

The invention relates to improvements in dumping-wagons.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of dumping-wagons, more especially the means fol-elevating the body of a wagon above the running-gear and for tilting the body to dump or discharge the contents thereof at the rear end of the said body, and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient elevating mechanism capable of firmly supporting a wagon-body in an elevated position while its contents are being which depend from the front of the frame of discharged. n

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, andpointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a dumping-wagon constructed in accordance with this invention, the body being elevated and inclined. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, the body being arranged upon the frame of the running-gear. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view, the parts being arranged as shown in Fig. 1.

Like numerals of reference designatevcorresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates the body of a dumping-wagon, adapted, as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings,to be arranged horizontally on the frame 2 of the running-gear and capable of being elevated by the means hereinafter described to an inclinedposition above the frame of the running-gear, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings. The body is supported in an elevated position by a pair of main supporting-standards 3 and a pair of supplemental supporting-standards 4, which are connected with the main supportingstandards by flexible connections 5, such as cables or chains. The main supporting-standards 3, which are arranged in an inclined po- Serial No. 115.184. (No model.)

sition, as shown in Fig. 2, when the body 1 is resting upon the frame of the running-gear, are pivotally connected at their upper ends by suitable fastening devices 6 to the sills 7 of the body adjacent to the centers of the said sills, and the said pivots 6 also connect the upper ends of a pair of slidable braces 8 to the body 1 and to the main supporting-standards. The lower-ends of the main standards 3 are connected by a cross rod or bar 9, and the lower ends of the slidable braces 8 are pivoted by suitable fastening devicesl() to sleeves 11, which are arranged upon inclined guide-bars 12. The guide-bars 12, which are located at opposite sides of the frame of the running-gear, are arranged at the front portion thereof, being offset from the. side bars 13 of the said frame by spacing-blocks 14 and 15, and the lower front ends of the inclined guide-bars are supported by arms 16,

the running-gear. When the body 0f the `wagon is elevated by the means hereinafter described, the braces 8 are carried upward and are swung inwardorvrearward, such inward movement being effected by means of oppositely-disposed braces 17. The braces 17, /which are arranged in a horizontal position when the body rests upon the frame of the running-gear, are pivoted at their front ends by suitable fastening devices 18 to the braces 8 at points between the ends thereof,.and the rear ends ofthe braces 17 are -pivotally connected tothe sides 13 of the frame of the running-gear by means of fastening devices 19, which also support rollers 20. The rollers 20 support the iexible connections 5 when the body is lowered, as shown in Fig. 2, and they facilitate the movement of the said flexible same from moving backward or forward. The

shaft orwindlass, which is provided at one -eud with a crank-handle and which is held IOO against retrograde rotation by a pawl 25 and ratchet-wheel 26, is connected by short flexible connections 27, such as cables or chains, and when the flexible connections are wound around the shaft or Windlass the body will be elevated and carried upward from the horizontal position (shown in Fig. 2) to the inclined position. (Shown in Figs. land 3.) The supplemental standards are provided at their lower ends with cus or sleeves 2S, which are slidably mounted on rear inclined guides 29,

consisting of bars secured at their upper ends to the sides of the frame of the running-gear, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings.

The main and supplemental standards, which are pivotally connected with the wagonbody, are slidably connected with the frame of the running-gear, and the supplemental standards are moved upward by the iexible connections,which extend from the lower ends of the supplemental standards to the upper ends ofthe main standards, and the latter are firmly braced and supported.

It will be seen that the dumping-wagon is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction and that the elevating mechanism, which possesses great strength and durability,

is adapted to be readily operated to raise and lower the body of the wagon.

What I claim isl. In a dumping-wagon, the combination with a running-gear, and a body, of main and supplemental standards pivotally connected with the body and slidably connected with the running-gear, means for raising and lowering the main standards and connections extending from the lower ends of the supplemental standards to the body and secured to the same at the upper ends of the main standards, substantially as described.

2. In a dumping-Wagon, the combination with a running-gear, and a body, of main and supplemental standards pivotally connected at their upper ends with the body and slidably connected with the running-gear, hoisting mechanism connected with the main standards, and means for connecting the lower ends of the supplemental standards with the Wagon-body at a point beyond their upper ends, substantially as described.

In a dumping-Wagon, the combination with a running-gear, and a body, of main and supplemental standards pivotally connected with the body and slidably connected with the running-gear, hoisting mechanism con` nected with the main standards, Aand exible connections extending from the supplemen-l tal standards to the upper ends of the main` gear, a slidable brace connected with the instandards, substantially as described.

4. In a dumping-Wagon, the combination with a running-gear, and a body, of main and supplemental standards pivotally connected with the body and slidably connected with the running-gear, hoisting mechanism connected with the main standards, flexible connections extending from the lower ends of the supplemental standards to the upper ends of the main standards, and rollers mounted on the running-gear and receiving the flexible connections when the body is in a hori- Zontal position, substantially as described.

5. In a dumping-wagon, the combination with a running-gear, and a body, of main and supplemental standards pivotally connected with the body and slidably connected with the running-gear, hoisting mechanism connected with the main standards, inclined guides receiving the supplemental standards, and meansf-for connecting the supplemental standards with the body, substantially as described.

6. In a dumping-wagon, the combination with a running-gear, and a body, of main and supplemental standards pivotally connected with the body and slidably connected with the running-gear, means for hoisting the said standards and for lowering the same, inclined guides receiving the supplemental standards, and movable braces connected with the main standards, substantially as described.

7. In a dumping-wagon, the combination with a running-gear, and a body, of main standards pivotally connected with the body, hoisting mechanism, and oppositely-disposed pivotally-connected braces supporting the main standards and connected with the running-gear, one of the braces being slidable on the running-gear and the other being pivotally connected with the same, substantially as described.

8. In a dumping-wagon, the combination with a running-gear, and a body, of a main standard pivotally connected with the body, hoisting mechanism connected with the main standard, a brace slidably connected with the running gear and pivotally connected with the body, and an oscillatory brace provided with a guide receiving the main standard, substantially as described.

9. In a dumping-Wagon, the combination with a running-gear, and a body, of a main standard pivotally connected with the body, hoisting mechanism connected with the main standard, an inclined guide mounted on the running gear, a brace slidably connected with the inclined guide and pivotally connected with the body,an oscillatory brace pivotally connected with the running-gear and With the slidable brace and provided with a guide receiving the main standard, substantially as described.

10. In a dumping-Wagon, the combination with a running-gear, and a body, of a `main standard pivotally connected with the body, an inclined guide mounted on the runningclined guide and with the body, an oscillatory brace pivotally connected with the slidable brace and with the running-gear, and a link connected with the slidable brace and provided with a guide receiving the main standard, substantially as described.

l1. In a dumping-wagon, the combination IOO IIO

with a running-gear, and abody, of front and with the running-gear, and links connected rear inclined guides,main standards pivotally with the oscillatory braces and provided with connected with the bodynear the center thereguides receiving the main standards, substanof, supplemental standards connected with tially as described. 15 5 the rear portion of the body and slidably conln testimony that I claim the foregoing as nected with the rear inclined guides, means my own I have hereto affixed my signature in for raising and lowering the standards, a slidthe presence of two Witnesses.

able brace connected with the front inclined EARL P. LEGORE. guide and pivotally connected to the body at Witnesses: 1 lo the upper ends of the main standards, oscil- GEO. E. GRIFFIN,

latory braces connecting the slidable braces JEAN J. BILLARD. 

